ALLENDE'S CHILE SHOWN IN 'AVENUE OF AMERICAS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300020007-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 27, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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27 January 1976
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Allend&s Chile Shown. in.
G .Avenue of Americas
In Chile, on Nov. 3, 1970, Dr. Sal-
vador Allende became the first freely
elected Marxist presidant in the
Western Hemisphere, on Sep. 11,
1973, Allende's Popular Unity
government was toppled by. a bloody
military coup.
"Avenue of the Americas" (which
screens tonight only at the Fox Ve-
nice Theater) is -an extremely well
inade, deeply disturbing, 82-minute
film about Chile, which is closer in
tone and substance to Gian Carlo
Menotti's opera "The Consul" than to
the -documentary that it really is.
The film is dedicated to its American
scriptwriter, iharles Horman, who
was arrested and killed by the milita?
ry junta one week af'ter~ the ? 1973
coup----a few hours after he was de-
nied asylum by the U.S. Embassy in
Santiago.. .'. . ? - ' .-,
The film: is,.a comprehensive, his-
torical tract about the events leading
to Allende's election and his subse-
quent overthrow, as well as being. an
indictment of United States complici-
Aty in the Sep. 11 coup; -
"Avenue of the Americs" eneora-.
passes a broad spectrum, boar
raphicslly and socially; of footage-
shot in Chita between 1976-and 1973.
'Scenes from cities, shanty towns, fao
tories, schools, farms and mines pro- {
vide the settings, for informative in-
terviews with workers, peasants,.:
ruiners, students and professionals,
who discuss with joyful optimism the
quality of their lives before and dur-
ing the Allende government.
The film also shows the extreme,
poverty in Chile, where half of all
-
children under 15 suffer from malnu
trition:
Interviews with , politicans and iii-""
tellectuals, who discuss the implica;
tions of CIA and corporate involve.
ment in Chile, ' are - also 'included,
Among others interviewed are Phfli
A g" former CIA officer in atln
America; M,rs. Allende; Pentagon Pay`.
pens' defendant Daniel Ellsberg; No..
bel Prize-winner George Wald and
Joyce Horman, the'widow of Charles
Horman.
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